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US 11,578,435 B2Granted
Woven fabric and method for manufacturing same
AssigneeToray Industries, Inc.
InventorsSatoshi Yamada, Nobuaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsuchikura
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Abstract
It is an object to provide a woven fabric which can stably form a folding shape superior in shape retention and followability and which can be sewn while maintaining the folding structure, and also to provide a method for manufacturing the same. There is provided a woven fabric having pleats, wherein the height of the pleats is 2 to 10 times the average diameter of yarns arranged in the same direction as the pleats.
Claims9
A woven fabric having a pleat, wherein
- the woven fabric is a weft-double woven fabric or warp-double woven fabric in which warps or wefts are arranged such that they pass between two wefts or warps having a double-layer structure in a pleated state, and the woven fabric has a single-laver structure in an un-pleated state when sides of the woven fabric are pulled,
- the pleat is in a state in which a mountain part and a valley part are formed alternately and repeatedly on both the front and back sides of a textile and the mountain parts of the front side of the textile are the valley parts on the back side of the textile, and
- the pleat has a height of 2 to 10 times an average diameter of a yarn arranged in the same direction as the pleat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.